9 Aug
2025
9 Aug
'25
1:14 p.m.
On Aug 8, 2025, at 5:26 PM, ben
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2025-08-08 2:23 p.m., Paul Koning wrote:
I need to read that.
I like IBM's book, on the 7030,
and Bell's Books,on the PDP computers.
Three totaly different views, on computing.
I'm not sure which Bell book you mean, but there's Bell and Newell which is a
broad survey of computer architectures. One of the few square books I have ever seen.
paul
On Aug 8,
2025, at 2:14 PM, ben <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2025-08-08 11:52 a.m., Paul Koning wrote:
You should spend some time looking at old
machine architectures, because what you say is very 21st century centric. An excellent
intro is "Design of a computer - the Control Data 6600" by J. E. Thornton.
Available on Bitsavers
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/books/DesignOfAComputer_CDC6600.pdf or you can get the
hardcover printed book. The 6600 max memory was 128k 60-bit words, which
for those days was admittedly quite large. No VM, though it did support relocation (base
address and field length, similar to the DEC KA10). Large RAM is nice but I don't see
what it has to do with RISC.
It was DRAM in SIMM packaging, that let you have a
fast memory bus off the cpu chip set.